Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild chase, Rodriguez Gacha's son Fredy, 17, ultimately -- and unwittingly -- led more than 1,000 police and marines to his father. Fredy was arrested last August when the Colombian army raided Rodriguez Gacha's ranch north of Bogota. His alleged crime, possession of illegal weapons, was relatively minor, but police held Fredy longer than most unindicted prisoners, hoping to put pressure on Rodriguez Gacha...
...away, killed at least 52 and injured 1,000. The day before the bombing, a judge involved in prosecuting the drug masters was gunned down while strolling the streets of Medellin. And nine days earlier, the narcos planted a bomb that ripped apart an Avianca jetliner en route from Bogota to Cali, claiming 107 lives. An anonymous caller said the plane had been destroyed because its passengers included five "snitches" -- people who, like the major, had defied the Mob to help the government...
...Bush Administration professes to be pleased with Bogota's resolve, though officials are studying whether it will be safe enough for the President to attend a drug summit in Colombia early next year. "Barco is an engineer, and so he took a while to make up his mind," says a U.S. official. "But now that he's taken a decision to fight these guys, he's unshakable." But if Barco's campaign is lauded by the politicians in Washington, it has more than its share of deserters among the politicians in Colombia. Aware that the specter of an American jail...
Flight 203 was bound for Cali, about 190 miles southwest of Bogota. Cali is the headquarters of one of Colombia's biggest cocaine cartels and has been the site of frequent bombings and other attacks since the government declared was on drug lords in August...
...plane took off from Bogota's El Dorado International Airport at 7:15 a.m., and Ossa told the tower at 7:18 a.m. that everything was normal, Duarte told The Associated Press. It crashed shortly afterward...